I am reading a new book in school called, "Fever 1793". Now, my teacher hasn't actually started telling us to read it for quizzes because not everyone has the book (didn't bring their permission slips). So instead I decided to go on ahead and read the whole book. Before reading this I thought it be about a zombie disease that causes people to become, well "zombies". However, I was far from close, in fact, the events in this book actually took place (just not the narrator). The author of "Fever 1793" is "Laurie Halse Anderson". Now she is a "New York Times Bestseller" just like most of the books I read and it seems as though she has an "obsession" with slavery. Now, this is not in a bad way, it's just that besides this one 3 other of her novels have some type of "Racism towards Black people".

Now I'm going to be summarizing this book. Matilda is a young girl who lives with her mother in a coffeehouse. They serve people food and let them lounge in the front room, this is where they get to talk to their friends and order stuff to eat. Eliza is one of the workers in this establishment (negro) and helps make the food alongside Matilda's mother. 

I just want to let you guys know that slavery has just ended a while back and blacks are still a bit "discriminated", however people are started giving them a bit of newfound respect. Polly was another negro that worked as a waiter but unfortunately died just a week ago due to the "Yellow Fever" (basically this disease comes whenever it is really hot, your eyes start to turn yellow and then you get really swelled up, eventually you die unless you get cold). 

Matilda wanted to give some food to Polly's parents but mother wouldn't allow it. She had to continue working, Matilda's mother would not allow her daughter to get the Yellow Fever from being outside in the burning heat of summer. Matilda's grandfather was in the lounge talking to his friends about the war against Britain, this is because he was a soldier during those days and fought for his country. As the story continues Mother asks grandfather to take Matilda away from Philidelphia. This is because of the Yellow Fever that she also has. Grandfather obeys and takes Matilda into a carriage where they try and cross to a different location. However, the people guarding the town against fever victims see Grandfather a cough and think he's infected. This results in them being thrown off the carriage and their supplies robbed.

It's a long journey back but by the time Matilda and Grandfather get to their coffeehouse, it had been robbed by someone going through the windows. Matilda is worried that Eliza and her mother were dead or not safe, however, she'd have to forget those thoughts for a while since no one was in the building. While Grandfather and Matilda try and survive in the burning heat with little food robbers came into the house in the morning. They found Matilda and forcefully asked her where the silver was (beating her while asking). Matilda wouldn't say and then Grandfather shot his gun at one of the robbers. He missed the shot but the recoil bounced him back against a wall and he fell. While one of the men ran away from the house the other tried choking the grandfather. Thankfully, Matilda saw the sword that he used during the great war of Britain and hurt the robber enough for him to get away. Now, what would they do?

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